xi, 538 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- 1. Tiananmen: The Burden of Truth 7 -- 2. The Struggle to Get It Straight: The Early Years 32 -- 3. The 1950s and 1960s: Forging a More Credible Voice 58 -- 4. The VOA Correspondent: To the Ends of the Earth 79 -- 5. From Here to Everywhere: Building a Global Network 105 -- 6. Into the Citadel of "Ramshackle Excellence": A Portrait 128 -- 7. The Struggle to Get It Straight: The Charter as Law 152 -- 8. The Independence Debate: To the Brink and Back 178 -- 9. The Tumultuous 1980s: A Lost Horizon Regained 199 -- 10. The Epochal Years: 1969 and 1989 237 -- 11. Out of Africa: The Triumph of Straight Talk 253 -- 12. On Language: Words and Their Stories 273 -- 13. Music: The Universal Language 288 -- 14. To the Roof of the World: The Tibetan Service Miracle 302 -- 15. Middle East Flashbacks: The Wars of 1967 and 1991 311 -- 16. Into the 1990s: The Brave New World of Multimedia 329 -- 17. The Struggle to Get It Straight: Independence at the New Millennium 349 -- 18. America's Voice: A Voice for the Voiceless 371 -- 19. Yearning to Breathe Free: Tales of Great VOA Escapes 386 -- 20. The Struggle Goes On: VOA at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. 404 -- Conclusion 427 APPENDIX A. VOA Journalistic Code, April 12, 1995 453 -- APPENDIX B. Key Legislation Affecting VOA in Addition to the Charter 457 -- APPENDIX c. Tables and Charts 459 -- APPENDIX D. Selected Statements About VOA by Presidents 465 -- NOTES 467 -- GLOSSARY 501 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 507 -- INDEX 521

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